Kevin Shirley

Kevin Shirley (born 29 June 1960), also known as The Caveman, is a South African music producer, engineer, audio mixer, and musician. He has produced and engineered music for many artists, including Silverchair, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels, and Cold Chisel. As of 2023, he is a musician in Jimmy Barnes' supergroup, releasing a self-titled album in 2023.

Early life and education Kevin John Shirley was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. whose singer was Brian Davidson (from Freedoms Children).

In March 2023, Jimmy Barnes announced the formation of supergroup The Barnestormers, featuring Barnes, Chris Cheney, Slim Jim Phantom, Jools Holland, and Kevin Shirley. A self-titled album was released on 26 May 2023.

Shirley produced Elly-May Barnes' first solo single, He is described as a "dear friend", and is credited as a musician on her first album, No Good, released in April 2024.

Other groups Shirley has also produced music for The Black Crowes, Journey, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Dream Theater, Jimmy Barnes, Cold Chisel, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Springbok Nude Girls, All Night Radio, Mr. Big, and Europe.

Selected discography Release date: 1984 Label: Mountain RecordsGuitarist, production, engineering 1988Tony Johns — The Way I Live Rock City Promotions PTY. LTD. Confidential Records.Production, Engineering, mixing 1990 Winston Mankunku Ngozi — Crossroads Label: Pro-Arte Records Production, engineering, mixing The Black Crowes — Shake Your Money Maker Release date: February 1990 Label: Def American Re-mix for Sho'Nuff boxset Big Sky — Waiting for the Dawn Release date: August 1990 Label: Gallo RecordsProduction, engineering, composer Lime Spiders — Beethoven's Fist Release date: 17 October 1990 Label: Virgin Records Engineering, production 1991 Peter Wells — Everything You Like Tries to Kill You Label: Zoo Entertainment Production, engineering mixing 1992 Baby Animals — Baby Animals Release date: February 1992 Label: Imago Engineering The Black Crowes — The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Release date: 12 May 1992 Label: Def American Re-mix for Sho'Nuff boxset 1993 Billy Squier — Tell the Truth Release date: 27 April 1993 Label: Capitol Engineering, mixing Rush — Counterparts Release date: 19 October 1993 Label: Atlantic/Anthem Engineering 1994 Olivia Newton-John — Gaia: One Woman's Journey Label: Festival Mixing Material Issue — Freak City Soundtrack Release date: 8 March 1994 Label: Mercury Engineering, mixing 1995 Silverchair — Frogstomp Release date: 27 March 1995 Label: Murmur Production, engineering, mixing Ammonia — Mint 400 Release date: 16 October 1995 Label: Murmur/Epic Production, engineering, mixing 1996 Hoodoo Gurus — Blue Cave Release date: May 1996 Label: Mushroom/True North/Zoo Mixing Divinyls — Underworld Release date: 11 November 1996 Label: BMG Engineering, mixing Journey — Trial by Fire Release date: 22 November 1996 Label: Columbia Production, engineering, mixing 1997 Aerosmith — Nine Lives Release date: 18 March 1997 Label: Columbia Production, engineering, mixing Dream Theater — Falling into Infinity Release date: 23 September 1997 Label: EastWest Production, engineering, mixing Jackyl — Cut the Crap Release date: 14 October 1997 Label: Epic Mixing 1998 The Angels — Skin & Bone Release date: March 1998 Label: Liberation Music Mixing Liquid Tension Experiment — Liquid Tension Experiment Release date: 10 March 1998 Label: Magna Carta Mixing Journey — Greatest Hits Live Release date: 24 March 1998 Label: Columbia Production, mixing Rocket from the Crypt — RFTC Release date: 2 June 1998 Label: Interscope Production, engineering, mixing Cold Chisel — The Last Wave of Summer Release date: 25 August 1998 Label: Mushroom Mixing Dream Theater — Once in a LIVEtime Release date: 27 October 1998 Label: EastWest Production, engineering, mixing 1999 The Black Crowes — By Your Side Release date: 12 January 1999 Label: Columbia Production, engineering, mixing Silverchair — Neon Ballroom Release date: 8 March 1999 Label: Sony/Murmur Mixing Buck-O-Nine — Libido Release date: 16 March 1999 Label: TVT Mixing Liquid Tension Experiment — Liquid Tension Experiment 2 Release date: 15 June 1999 Label: Magna Carta Mixing Amanda Marshall — Tuesday's Child Release date: 22 June 1999 Label: Sony/Epic Production, engineering, mixing doubleDrive — 1000 Yard Stare Release date: 17 August 1999 Label: MCA Mixing Our Lady Peace — Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch Release date: 21 September 1999 Label: Columbia Mixing Big Sky — Best of the Decade Release date: 4 October 1999 Label: EpicProduction: compilation Production, engineering, mixing: "Destiny", "Skin Deep" Billionaire — Ascension Release date: 19 October 1999 Label: Slash Mixing Dream Theater — Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Release date: 26 October 1999 Label: Elektra Mixing (tracks 2–8, 11) Little Steven — Born Again Savage Release date: 30 November 1999 Label: Pachyderm Mixing 2000 Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes — Live at the Greek Release date: 29 February 2000 Label: TVT Production, engineering, mixing The Unband — Retarder Release date: 7 March 2000 Label: TVT Mixing Joe Satriani — Engines of Creation Release date: 14 March 2000 Label: Epic Production, engineering, mixing Iron Maiden — Brave New World Release date: 29 May 2000 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Tidewater Grain — Here on the Outside Release date: 12 September 2000 Label: RuffNation Production, engineering, mixing 2001 Journey — Arrival Release date: 3 April 2001 Label: Columbia Production, engineering, mixing Bodyjar — How It Works Release date: 10 July 2001 Label: Capitol Mixing HIM — Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights Release date: 27 August 2001 Label: BMG Production, engineering, mixing Dream Theater — Live Scenes from New York Release date: 11 September 2001 Label: Elektra Production, engineering, mixing SOiL — Scars Release date: 11 September 2001 Label: J Mixing 2002 Silvertide — American Excess (EP) Label: J Production, engineering, mixing Dream Theater — Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Release date: 29 January 2002 Label: Elektra Mixing Iron Maiden — Rock in Rio Release date: 25 March 2002 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Neurotica — Neurotica Release date: 25 June 2002 Label: SmackDown! Mixing Steve Louw & Big Sky — Beyond The Blue Release Date: 9 September 2002 Label: SonyProduction, engineering, mixing Lordi — Get Heavy Release date: 1 November 2002 Label: BMG Finland Mixing 2003 Span — Mass Distraction Label: Interscope/Island Mixing Led Zeppelin — How the West Was Won Release date: 27 May 2003 Label: Atlantic Engineering, mixing Iron Maiden — Dance of Death Release date: 2 September 2003 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Josh Ritter — Hello Starling Release date: 9 September 2003 Label: V2 Mixing Dream Theater — Train of Thought Release date: 11 November 2003 Label: Elektra Mixing 2004 Silvertide — Show and Tell Release date: 8 June 2004 Label: J Production, engineering, mixing Hurricane Party — Get This (EP) Release date: 10 August 2004 Label: Sanctuary Mixing New York Dolls — The Return of the New York Dolls: Live from Royal Festival Hall, 2004 Release date: 28 September 2004 Label: Attack Remixing Dream Theater — Live at Budokan Release date: 5 October 2004 Label: Atlantic Mixing 2005 Josh Ritter — 4 Songs Live (EP) Release date: 22 February 2005 Label: V2 Mixing Oz Noy — Ha! Release date: 26 April 2005 Label: Magna Carta Mixing Supagroup — Rules Release date: 31 May 2005 Label: Foodchain Production, engineering, mixing After the Fall — Always Forever Now Release date: 21 August 2005 Label: Festival Mushroom Mixing Iron Maiden — Death on the Road Release date: 30 August 2005 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing 2006 Soulphood — Liquid Dynamite Release date: 17 January 2006 Label: Rock Lord Mixing Oliver Black — Live in Texas (EP) Release date: 21 March 2006 Label: TVT Production, engineering, mixing Joe Bonamassa — You & Me Release date: 6 June 2006 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing Black Stone Cherry — Black Stone Cherry Release date: 18 July 2006 Label: Roadrunner Mixing Iron Maiden — A Matter of Life and Death Release date: 28 August 2006 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing 2007 Kittie — Funeral for Yesterday Release date: 20 February 2007 Label: Merovingian Mixing The Mooney Suzuki — Have Mercy Release date: 19 June 2007 Label: Elixia Mixing Joe Bonamassa — Sloe Gin Release date: 21 August 2007 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing Oz Noy — Fuzzy Release date: 11 September 2007 Label: Magna Carta Mixing Supagroup — Fire for Hire Release date: 25 September 2007 Label: Foodchain Production, engineering, mixing Big Sky — Trancas Canyon Release date: April 2008 Label: SonyProduction, engineering, mixing 2008 Jordan Zevon — Insides Out Release date: 15 April 2008 Label: New West Engineering, mixing Journey — Revelation Release date: 3 June 2008 Label: Nomota/Frontiers Production, engineering, mixing Lauren Harris — Calm Before the Storm Release date: 10 June 2008 Label: Demolition Mixing Joe Bonamassa — Live from Nowhere in Particular Release date: 19 August 2008 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing Dream Theater — Chaos in Motion 2007–2008 Release date: 22 October 2008 Label: Roadrunner Mixing 2009 Joe Bonamassa — The Ballad of John Henry Release date: 24 February 2009 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing Iron Maiden — Flight 666 – The Original Soundtrack Release date: 22 May 2009 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Joe Bonamassa — Live from the Royal Albert Hall Release date: 22 September 2009 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing Hollywood Undead — Desperate Measures Release date: 10 November 2009 Label: A&M/Octone Mixing 2010 Joe Bonamassa — Black Rock Release date: 23 March 2010 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, photography Iron Maiden — The Final Frontier Release date: 13 August 2010 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Black Country Communion — Black Country Release date: 20 September 2010 Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, lyricist, composer Mr. Big — What If... Release date: 15 December 2010 Label: Frontiers/Victor Production, engineering, mixing 2011 Joe Bonamassa — Dust Bowl Release date: 22 March 2011 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer, photography Journey — Eclipse Release date: 23 May 2011 Label: Nomota/Frontiers Production, engineering, mixing Black Country Communion — 2 Release date: 13 June 2011 Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer, liner notes John Hiatt — Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns Release date: 2 August 2011 Label: New West Production, engineering, mixing Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa — Don't Explain Release date: 27 September 2011 Label: J&R Adventures/Mascot Production, engineering, mixing 2012 Black Country Communion — Live Over Europe Release date: 27 February 2012 Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer, liner notes Iron Maiden — En Vivo! Release date: 23 March 2012 Label: EMI Production, engineering, mixing Joe Bonamassa — Driving Towards the Daylight Release date: 22 May 2012 Label: J&R Adventures/Provogue Production, engineering, mixing, guitar, tambourine, toy piano, cowbell, percussion Robert Cray Band — Nothin but Love Release date: 27 August 2012 Label: Provogue Production, engineering, mixing Joe Bonamassa — Beacon Theatre: Live from New York Release date: 24 September 2012 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer, photography Steve Harris — British Lion Release date: 24 September 2012 Label: EMI Mixing John Hiatt — Mystic Pinball Release date: 25 September 2012 Label: New West Production, engineering, mixing Beth Hart — Bang Bang Boom Boom Release date: 16 October 2012 Label: Provogue/Mascot Production, engineering, mixing Black Country Communion — Afterglow Release date: 29 October 2012 Label: Mascot/J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer 2013 Joe Bonamassa — An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House Release date: 25 March 2013 Label: J&R Adventures Production, engineering, mixing, composer Iron Maiden — Maiden England '88 Release date: 25 March 2013 Label: EMI Mixing Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa — Seesaw Release date: 20 May 2013 Label: J&R Adventures/Mascot Production, engineering, mixing Black Star Riders — All Hell Breaks Loose Release date: 21 May 2013 Label: Nuclear Blast Production, engineering, mixing, percussion 2015 Iron Maiden — The Book of Souls Release date: 4 September 2015 Label: Parlophone Production, engineering, mixing 2021Smith/Kotzen — Smith/Kotzen Release date: 26 March 2021 Label: BMGMixing 2021Steve Louw — Headlight Dreams Release date: 7 May 2021 Label: BFD / The OrchardProduction, mixing 2021 Iron Maiden — Senjutsu Release date: 3 September 2021 Label: Parlophone Production, engineering, mixing 2022Steve Louw — Thunder and Rain Release date: 11 November 2022 Label: BFD / The OrchardProduction, mixing 2024Steve Louw — Between Time Release date: 6 September 2024 Label: BFD / The OrchardProduction, mixing 2026Steve Louw — Traces of the Flood Release date: 15 May 2026 Label: BFD / The OrchardProduction, mixing